Christmas at Crater Rim

This enhanced-color mosaic showing the Martian surface outside of Jezero Crater was taken by NASA's Perseverance from the crater rim at a location where the rover collected a sample dubbed "Silver Mountain." The 83 frames used to generate the mosaic were acquired by the rover's Mastcam-Z instrument on Dec. 25, 2024, the 1,368th Martian day, or sol, of Perseverance's mission. Enhanced-color images have their color bands processed to improve visual contrast and accentuate color differences.